Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Mermaids in Paradise” A Novel by Lydia Millet
The examined life is not worth living might be the credo of the self-absorbed Deborah, narrator of Lydia Millet’s…
March 6, 2015-
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ISIS, Kid Rock, and the Death of Compassion
Today, we talk about two wars. Both challenge essential freedoms we have long taken for granted. In troubled times,…
March 4, 2015 -
I Officially Give Up and do that whole Band/Letters in Your Name thing, creating an excuse to talk about Impaled Nazarene and Weinstein Dorm.
You have surely noticed that the Internet is absolutely lousy with these lists where someone assigns a band to…
March 2, 2015 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “The Headmaster’s Wife” A Novel by Thomas Christopher Greene
Arthur Winthrop, the headmaster of Thomas Greene’s title, is in his fifties; he’s settled, comfortable, the head of the…
February 27, 2015 -
Saturday Night Live Turns 40; Tim’s Visits to the Show Turn 38.
The fairly unspectacular memories that follow are dedicated to Alan Zweibel, who was inordinately kind to a 14-year old…
February 24, 2015 -
Remix: Is Music Ready For The Apocalypse?
Listen, no person, no matter how much they froth with opinions, should be above an occasional mea culpa, and…
February 23, 2015 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “The Heathen School: A Story of Hope and Betrayal in the Age of the Early Republic” by John Demos
Cornwall, Connecticut was briefly the site, in the early 19th century, of The Heathen School, established to educate the…
February 20, 2015 -
Don’t Know Much About History: The 10 Albums Kanye West Must Listen to Before He Makes a Bigger Fool of Himself
Before I address the fuckery of Mr. Kanye West, I want to avow the following: America, I am a…
February 18, 2015 -
Fans of My Little Pony Converge for PonyCon 2015 in Brooklyn Heights
So what’s going on at PonyCon 2015 at St. Francis College this weekend? Welp, fans of the TV show My Little Pony are getting their freak on …. errr sumthin’. The Tale of the Tweets after the jump.
February 18, 2015
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Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “The Light Between Oceans” a novel by M. L. Stedman
Tom Sherbourne, the multi-layered protagonist of M.L. Stedman’s shimmering novel, is an Australian veteran of the Great War who…
February 13, 2015